April 28, 1866

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Features

Apparatus for Receiving and Delivering Mail Bags with the Train in Motion

What I Saw of the Pearl Fishery

Paper Made From Wood

The Solar System

Prof. Doremus's Lectures

Illig and Neuberger's Fruit Can

Polytechnic Association of the American Institute

Match Making

Western Steam Boilers

A Seven-Tool Lathe

Chrysler's Fruit Jar

Foreign and American Steamers

High Wages

The Cholera

Failure of a Launch

Still Another Explosion of Nitro-Glycerin

Renewing Worn Bank-Note Plates

Special Notices

To Our Readers

Miscellaneous Summary

Treatment of Cholera

Mechanics

Inventors, Manufacturers

Departments

Departments

Correspondence

New Inventions

Notes and Queries

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